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Thu Nov 10, 2016 12:29 pm

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been
turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever life gets you down" he told me, "And things
seem hard or tough , And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft , And you feel that you've had
quite enough, ,"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving
at 900 miles an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the
source of all our power. Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-
years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide We're thirty thousand light